Increased sensitivity to effects of normal aging and Alzheimer's disease on cortical thickness by adjustment for local variability in gray/white contrast: A multi-sample MRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1545-1557

  Westlye, Lars T ^a   Walhovd, Kristine B ^a,b   Dale, Anders M ^c,d,e   Espeseth, Thomas ^a   Reinvang, Ivar ^a   Raz, Naftali ^f   Agartz, Ingrid ^a,g,h   Greve, Douglas N ⁱ   Fischl, Bruce ^i,j   Fjell, Anders M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g DIAKONHJEMMET HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^h KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

ⁱ MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^j MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; THICKNESS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGING; ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651111922     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.05.084     Document Type: Article

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